Four-horse evener.



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FOUR HURSE EVENER.

(Applicaticfi filed Sept. 14, 1900,) (I0 Nodal.)

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NITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

CHARLES M. PARKER AND FRANK BEAUREGARD, OF MANTENO, ILLINOIS.

FOUR-HORSE EVENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 669,851, dated March 12, 1901.

Application filed Eleptember 14, 1900. Serial No. 80,086. (No model.)

To al whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES M. PARKER and FRANK BEAUREGARD, citizens of the United States, residing at Manteno, in the county of Kankakee and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Four-Horse Eveners, of which the following is a specification. V

This invention relates to improvements in four-horse equalizers.

The object of the invention is to provide an equalizer or contrivance whereby the side draft of a reaper or other like machine may be counteractedthat is to say, the object of the invention is to so arrange an equalizer as to direct the draft on a pole or tongue arranged out of the central line of a machine in a straightforward direction.

The invention consists in certain combinations hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawing the figure is a plan showing my invention.

1 is the pole or tongue of a reaper or other like machine having tendency to side draft.

2 is the main draft-bar, pivotally attached to the tongue at its middle and to which the draft on the tongue is applied through the medium of draft-straps 3 and 4 and beam 5, the usual doubletree 6 6 being attached to the extremities of the straps, as shown in the drawing. The beam 5 is pivoted to the tongue, the short end serving to support the straps 3 3 and the long end serving as a radius arm or brace to support the straps 4 at an angle with the tongue when under draft. It should be noted that the short end of the beam does not operate as a radius bar or arm, but solely as a support for the straps 3, through which the doubletree 6 is sustainedin horizontal position. The straps l are each made up of two parts jointed together, as shown, so that upon turning the team to the right the beam may swing back, as shown in dotted lines, to facilitate the turning. The outer extremities of straps 4 are provided with a plurality of perforations to facilitate the adjustment of our evener to difierent machines, the object being to set the draft-bar as far back on the machine as possible, and as diiferent machines vary in this respect the adjustment is provided for.

As the reaper or machine to which our evener is attached forms no part of our invention, We omit any description thereof.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A four-horse evener involving the combination with a tongue or pole of a draft-bar, draft-straps attached to opposite ends of said bar, a beam pivotally attached to and extending across the tongue which serves as a radiusbar at one side and as a support for the straps and doubletree at the other side, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof We have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

O. M. PARKER. FRANK BEAUREGARD.

Witnesses:

ALBERT TRUDEAU, HAMIDAS MONGEAU. 

